Thank you very much hon Chair. I suspect that, with regard to the failure, it's a matter of perception, but perhaps also a misreading of the timing between the interventions and the results from those interventions. In respect of rail, as well as the functioning of the ports generally, the work that has to be done there includes improvements on infrastructure; it includes the question of management within those ports; and it includes a range of things whose impact in totality cannot be seen in this period of time. Of course, there will be a lag between the time of taking decisions and getting them implemented, and the impact that those decisions have.
I think it's a matter of time. I would take a different view to that of the hon member ... that the stimulus package hasn't worked. It is because it is being implemented. So, the proceeds of the work being
done are yet to be seen. I think my small mind, economically thinking ... is that you will not because you have made an announcement now and tomorrow there is a sudden ... everything changes. In the real world things don't work like that.
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